My overclock, anything else i can do to save a few degrees?

deankenny

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My cooler is the DH14 from Noctura.

I managed to finally get to 4.6ghz on my 3570k with

offset +0.005
turbo +0.066
PLL 1.586 (lowest it will go)

My temps on prime after an hour or so is in the high 80s, with no WHEA errors whatsover reported in Event Viewer.

Im wondering can i save a few degrees anywhere, i was told to lower PLL but now im on the lowest it will go.

I reapplied thermal paste with rice grain type, and temps shot into mid 90s so i then re-applied with the cross method which has brought them back into the 80s.
 
do you have unobstructed air flow? Have you controlled the cable routing to ensure it does not impact the airflow?

I have the H50 on my system and Corsair recommended a back to front bottom to top airflow scheme... This lets the cooler pull cool air directly without it going through any heated devices...

Check that all your fans are oriented in the same flow pattern and clear cables to the side with velcro or reusable spot ties. Now recheck temps.

Idle is? my i7-2600K reads 33C at idle stable @ 4.4GHz
100% ? " " 75C after 3 minutes of 100%

If you watch your temps... the extra 5C count just be from heat soak...

Do you have the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility? That is what I use to monitor temps.
 

deankenny

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i have the nzxt case, i have 2 fans on the side blowing in, one huge fan on the top blowing out, and 1 fan on the back blowing out, so i have a continous one flow air system. with this case you get cable management built in, with routing them round the back of of the mobo plate, and coming back out through different sections upper medium and lowe near the motherboard so all cables are out the way.

i just took the side panel off and turned it upside down quickly so the fans were blowing directly onto the cpu cooler, with no change in temps.
 
Like I said... get the Intel Extreme Tuner software to look at the settings from the desktop... It lets you change, save reboot and test from it.

My i7-2600k does not get stability over 4.3... Is there a newer BIOS revision to the MoBo that might help?